Southern California Strings Seminar

We’re hosting the next Southern California Strings Seminar here at USC. It will be on Friday 6th May. I’ve been working on it a lot over the last several days* and put the finishing touches on the arrangements just this morning.

There’ll be no Saturday morning component this time, since there’s yet another huge event down at USC this weekend, and things will be rather disrupted, I understand, as there’ll be lots of people, street closures, and so forth**. (It is the Revlon Run/Walk event in exposition park, across the street from us, an excellent event!)

So I’ve packed five exciting talks into Friday, and I think it is going to be fun! Here’s the schedule:

At any string theory conference, it might be a good idea to ask: What are the 10 most important questions in string theory? Consider the following: Is Milgrom’s work important for the future of string theory? Can string theory explain the space roar? What is the explanation for the GZK paradox? (In particular, does inverse Compton scattering from relativistic jets explain the GZK paradox, and is string necessary for a complete understanding of relativistic jets?)